Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Out of difficulties grow miracles. — Jean de la Bruyère
We in recovery know a lot about miracles. We go to meetings and sit among the miracles of our fellow recovering addicts. A meeting is a miracle in progress. Next time we go to a meeting we should take time to study the miracles around us. Where were these people before they received the miracle of sobriety?
We in recovery know the elements that make up a good miracle: willingness, honesty, openness to change, spiritual principles, laughter, tears, Higher Power, fellowship, and large amounts of action. When we throw these elements at our difficulties, miracles happen — sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly. We then are to give thanks for these miracles. Miracles are our Higher Power and others doing for us what we couldn’t do for ourselves. Miracles are gifts given and received. We should ask ourselves, “Am I willing to give up my difficulties — my old ways — and allow myself to be changed into a miracle?”
Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, take my problems, issues, and bad attitudes, and use them to make a miracle. Today I will work with you and not against you.
Today’s Action
When I go to my next meeting, I will listen to the miracles that surround me and give thanks for the miracle of these changed people.
Hazelden Foundation
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